Herb Martin
Principal Active Directory Architect SME, DevOps Automation Cloud, & Software Developer
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolHerb Martin is a Principal Active Directory Architect and DevOps automation lead with nine years of recent focused experience and decades of enterprise-scale systems work, currently shaping global AD architecture and automation at PIMCO. He has managed and modernized sprawling Windows estates (including a 75-domain, 3,900-server State of Texas environment), blending deep AD, DNS, and Windows Server expertise with cloud automation across AWS, Azure, and VMware. A polyglot programmer in PowerShell, Perl, C#, Rust and C++, Herb builds production automation, distributed build systems, and disaster recovery solutions while mentoring Tier 3 teams and leading major incident response. He pairs hands-on engineering with teaching chops from long stints instructing Microsoft networking and security at the University of Texas, bringing a rare mix of classroom pedagogy and field-proven troubleshooting. Known for pragmatic solution design and speed-of-delivery, he combines formal systems thinking (TOC/TOC-derived techniques) with human-centered design and mnemonic-driven training methods to move complex projects forward. Based in Austin, he bridges consultancy, architecture, and software development to deliver resilient, automatable infrastructure at scale.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Psychology, Bachelor, Psychology at University of the State of New YorkChemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spanish, English, German, French, Arabic
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Github Skills (133)
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vim10
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powershell10
shell10
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macos10
command-line10
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emacs-lsp9
melpa9
formatter9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HerbM/WindowsPowerShell
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:429 commits, 130 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
HerbM/Profile-Utilities
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:143 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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